I'm sorry HAL, I won't let you do that.
tante - re:publica 2023
Asyl ist Menschenrecht
Wo waren wir … ?
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Wir reden heute nicht über …
HYPE!!!111
“KI” Diskurs
Fun Fact
Criti-Hype
“The kinds of critics that I am talking about invert boosters’ messages — they retain the picture of extraordinary change but focus instead on negative problems and risks. It’s as if they take press releases from startups and cover them with hellscapes.”
https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5
Stochastic Parrots
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Wir haben “Zukunft” outgesourced an den Tech-Sektor.
“The Religion of Technology”
“we routinely expect more from our artificial contrivances than mere convenience, comfort, or even survival. We demand deliverance. This is apparent in our virtual obsession with technological development, in our extravagant anticipations of every new technical advance — however much each fails to deliver on its promise — and, most important, in our utter inability to think and act rationally about this presumably most rational of human endeavors.”
Effizienz > alles.
“KI” keine konkrete, reale Technologie
Don’t believe me? Listen to Sam Altman
“Capitalist Realism”
"[Capitalist realism is] the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it."
“AI Realism”
“AI Realism” ist der weitverbreitete Glaube, dass “KI” auf jeden Fall die Zukunft massiv in nahezu jedem Aspekt des Lebens prägen wird und dass eine Alternative zum totalen Einsatz von “KI” unmöglich - nicht einmal denkbar - ist.
Beispiele “AI Realism”
T.I.N.A.:
“There is no alternative”
Was ist “KI” wirklich?
POSIWID
“the purpose of a system is what it does. This is a basic dictum. It stands for bald fact, which makes a better starting point in seeking understanding than the familiar attributions of good intention, prejudices about expectations, moral judgment, or sheer ignorance of circumstances.”
Stafford Beer
“KI” ist eine diffuse Menge von Narrativen
“KI” Narrative
Der ELIZA Effect
Die Tendenz unbewusst anzunehmen Computersysteme hätten menschliche Eigenschaften
Was ist “Intelligenz”?
Messbare/abschätzbare Eigenschaft einer Entität, die Problemlösungskompetenz beschreibt.
Was ist “Intelligenz”?
Intelligenz ist das von außen zugeschriebene Recht, autonom und selbstbestimmt Entscheidungen treffen und relevante Meinungen haben zu dürfen.
Wirkung der Narrative
Antropomorphisierung von “KI” und die Behauptung von “Intelligenz” sprechen technischen Systemen Agency und Autonomie zu.
Vom Objekt zum Scheinsubjekt
“KI” ist grundsätzlich konservative Technologie
“KI” ist eine Form von Automatisierung
Versprechen von Automatisierung
(der oft nicht direkt gesagte Teil: )
Taylorismus
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Aus: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylorismus
Das Versprechen der Effizienz
“Volkswagen spent the 2010s investing in robots to improve productivity on car assembly lines. By contrast, Toyota, the most efficient car company in the world, removed robots from assembly lines over the same period, to improve the responsiveness of its factories to changes in sales trends.”
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/04/revolution-brought-chatgpt-artificial-
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/04/revolution-brought-chatgpt-artificial-intelligence
Produktivitätsgewinne?
Wenn nicht Produktivität, was bringt “KI” dann?
How it started
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ezkm/eating-disorder-helpline-fires-staff-transitions-to-chatbot-after-unionization
How it’s going
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvk97/eating-disorder-helpline-disables-chatbot-for-harmful-responses-after-firing-human-staff
Fuck around and find out
Die Gefahr ist nicht, dass “KI” so gut ist wie Menschen, die Gefahr ist, dass das deinem Boss egal ist.
Was tun?
#Luddism
Progress without people
“Technological determinism - the domination of the present by the past - and technological progress - the domination of the present by the future - have combined in our minds to annihilate the technological present.”
“the Luddites were perhaps the last people in the West to perceive technology in the present tense and act upon that perception”
Timeline
“Breaking things”
“The Luddite opposition to machines was, it must be said, not a simple Technophobia. [...] Their revolt was not against machines in themselves, but against the industrial society that threatened their established ways of life, and of which machines were the chief weapon. To say they fought machines makes about as much sense as saying a boxer fights against fists”
Was können wir lernen?
Und es drängt.
Resisting AI
“AI doesn’t lead to a new dystopia ruled over by machines but an intensification of existing misery through speculative tendencies that echo those of finance capital. These tendencies are given a particular cutting edge by the way AI operates with and through race. AI is a form of computation that inherits concepts developed under colonialism and reproduces them as a form of race science. This is the payload of real AI under the status quo.”
Resisting AI
“a call to action regarding the potential of AI under crisis and the way the pseudo-rational ideology of artificial intelligence, with its racist and supremacist undertones, makes it an attractive prospect for the already existing authoritarian and fascist tendencies in political movements around the world. Given this, a shift to resisting AI is not only necessary but urgent.”
Resist AI Realism
“[modern narratives] start from the assumption that full automation will be achieved, going on to ask how we would need to transform society in order to save humanity from mass joblessness and create a world of generalized human dignity. It is possible to reverse this thought experiment. Instead of presupposing a fully automated economy and imagining the possibilities for a better and freer world created out of it, we could begin from a world of generalized human dignity, and then consider the technical changes needed to realize that world.”
Wir müssen lernen, zu bestimmten Systemen NEIN zu sagen.
“There is no alternative” ist ein politischer Move, um Macht zu verteidigen.
Eine bessere Welt ist möglich.
Und wir haben sie verdient.
Vielen Dank.
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